Following a string of incidents in South Korea, the luxury carmaker is taking the drastic safety measure to prevent any of its vehicles distributed in Europe catching fire.
Luxury carmaker BMW is recalling around 324,000 diesel vehicles in Europe, to fix a technical fault that’s caused 27 engine fires in South Korea, as reported by German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
On Monday, the company announced it would be recalling 106,000 of the vehicles from South Korea, following the spate of fires in the country earlier this year.
BMW’s South Korean unit apologised for the incidents, with the country’s transport ministry estimating the number of car fires to be 27. It’s prompted a government probe and resulted in a major backlash from consumers.
BMW says it will launch a recall of 106,000 diesel vehicles, including the 520D, starting from August 20th, citing defects in the exhaust gas recirculation system as the root cause of the fires.
